The Insight headset originated as a Kickstarter project that became a reality. It’s a headset that records your brainwaves and translates them into meaningful data. Thanks to Emotiv’s SDK, you can convert this translated data into program commands.

How does IBM Bluemix fit in?

Thanks to the Internet of Things Foundation Starter project on Bluemix, within a few minutes you can have a deployed runtime that acts as an integration communication layer between your hardware devices. This is exactly what Joshua achieved in the above video. An important component of this Bluemix runtime is Node-RED, a visual tool running on top of Node.js that wires together hardware devices.

This is an inspiring example of the Internet of Things in action and the power of a Cloud platform bringing everything together. The beauty of this experiment is that it doesn’t require a rocket science degree and can be quite easily achieved by most software developers, if led in the right direction.

The hard work has been performed by vendors like Emotiv. They create the SDKs for their hardware devices, which take on the heavy duty programming and logic. Developers then need only learn the APIs in order to interact with the hardware device. What’s left once this is achieved is configuring the means of integration between the hardware devices.

Closing

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